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a spot at base of whiskers blackish. Postauricular patch large, pro- 

 minent, brilliant ochraceous rufous. Hands and feet rich tawny- 

 rufous ; a few brown hairs at the base of the claw of the hallux.. 

 Tail tawny rufous, the basal fourth of the hairs slaty; tip of tail with 

 a few black hairs. 



Skull rather smaller than that oimarica, the teeth, on the contrary,, 

 rather larger. General characters, and noticeably the smoothness 

 and roundness of the braincase, quite similar. 



Dimensions of the type (measured by Mr. Mackenzie in the' 

 flesh). — Head and Body, 341 mm. ; tail, 34.1 ; hindfoot, 62 ; ear, 

 39. Skull. — Greatest length, 61 ; condylo-incisive length, 55"5 ;. 

 zygomatic breadth, 41'5 ; nasals, 18 x 11*5 ; palatilar length, 27*5 ; 

 palatal foramen, 4; upper molar series, exclusive of p^ 13*3. 



Hah.— Chin Hills, 50 miles. West of Kindat. Alt. 5,000 feet. 



%je.— Adult female B. M. No. 16.3.26.14. Original number 

 349. Collected 26th April 1915 by Mr. Mackenzie, I.F.S. Presented 

 to the National Museum by the Bombay Natural History Society. 

 Two specimens, adult and young, obtained. 



This beautiful Flying Squirrel is named in honour of Mrs. Mil- 

 lard, wife of the Society's Honorary Secretary. It represents a 

 group of the genus not hitherto found in British India, its only near 

 relations being the P. marica of Yunnan, and P. ininctatus of 

 Malacca, species which, as noted in the description of the former,, 

 differ widely from the ordinary heavy-skulled members of Fetaurista, 

 and approach some of the larger species of Pteromys* (subgenus 

 Hylo]3etes). It is undoubtedly most nearly allied to P. marica, but 

 differs by the practical absence of white spots, by its head not being 

 more blackish than its back, by the greater size of the postauri- 

 cular patches, and by its feet being almost wholly rufous. Here- 

 after intermediate links may be found to occur, but for the present 

 we cannot assume their existence, and therefore use a binomial 

 name for it. 



G. — New Rodents from Sikkim. 



By R. C. Wroughton. 



1.— A NEW Galloscivbus of the eeythbaevs group. 



In the Sikkim Collection, Mr. Crump obtained a squirrel, of 

 which there is no representative in the National Collection, and 

 which, so far as I can discover, has never been described. I pro- 

 pose to call it after Mr. Crump, who has done such good and 

 successful work for the Mammal Survey. 



* That is of Scmropterus, as they have been called until recently. 



